We support Board and Executive Leaders who are already successful and who want to move from being a ‘good’ to an ‘exceptional’ Leader.
Often described as ‘getting out of your own way’, we support individuals in breaking down the barriers that are preventing them from achieving what they are truly capable of.

Our Coaches are passionate about making a difference for our clients and helping to deliver inspirational and authentic leadership behaviours.

In an increasingly complex and challenging world, where leaders face unprecedented challenges, coaching can help improve both individual and collective performance.

Our coaching bench includes accredited Coaches (International Coaching Federation), experienced business leaders, academics and industry experts from around the world.

We offer tiers of Coaching across:

C-Suite

  • Understand unique challenges
  • Can be a lonely place - confidential 1:1 support
  • Enhancing confidence and contribution at Board level

Senior Executives

  • Meet evolving expectations
  • Delivering consistent and high performance
  • Lead with authenticity, inspiration and wisdom

Newly Appointed

  • Just appointed
  • Stepping up to a new role
  • First 100 days impact

The Executive coaching we offer can be transformational i.e. looking at changing and transforming those areas that have always held you back or transactional i.e. working on a specific issue.

Our programmes are action and results-oriented and thus focus on demonstrable improvements in performance.

Transformative Coaching

  • Developing high performing leaders
  • Developing an authentic leadership style
  • Developing empathy to support a visionary directive style
  • Developing highly technical leaders with a more rounded emotionally intelligent approach
  • Achieving successful and trusting relationships with peers/teams

Group/Team Coaching

  • Effective team working is a prerequisite of successful organisations
  • Our highly qualified executive coaches work closely with leadership teams to help them understand the dynamics within the team and how to build effective relationships
  • By encouraging the team to develop the best corporate solution (rather than personal, political and functional solutions) they communicate with each other more effectively and enables them to function more efficiently as a team
  • Our experienced coaches help teams to look 'beneath the surface' to develop positive and enduring solutions
  • Based on a proven process, we work with teams to develop true alignment

    • Transactional Coaching

    • Confidence and contribution at Board level
    • Enhancing self regard to drive positive behaviour
    • Motivating or enhancing performance
    • Influencing others – upwards and across
    • Managing workload successfully
    • Tackling under performance and dealing with conflict
    • Developing ‘gravitas’ and presence

    Board Effectiveness

     
  • Never have the Boards of companies been under such public scrutiny while having to manage in a business environment of constant flux
  • And the greatest challenge that Boards face is how to ensure that the dynamics of Board relationships deliver an outcome which is greater than the sum of the parts
  • We work with you to ensure a top team that works more effectively together and to a shared agenda
  • Thus building improved reputation among the company’s stakeholders and heightened CEO and Board recognition of how they are perceived and the impact they are having across their organisation

    • Coaching Testimonials

    • Head of Business Management (Property)
      My six 1:1 coaching sessions with Ruth have aided me more than any of the other professional training I have undertaken. The coaching was 100% tailored to the areas I wanted to improve on and there was no other agenda. When I started the coaching I had just returned to work after my first child having been promoted whilst on maternity leave. I was therefore trying to juggle a number of new demands and not able to see where I was struggling, although I knew I was. Ruth was able to get me to find my own solutions and help me recognise that some of my own behaviours were causing some of the problems. I think I may have eventually got to some of the solutions myself but I don’t think I would have recognised my own behaviours in their true light without Ruth’s external, impartial influence. I felt very at ease talking with Ruth and I was able to be more honest with her than with any other professional colleague as I trusted her easily. I am not given to such honesty and trust easily. However, the subject matter we discussed I felt meant we needed this rapport so I am pleased it came naturally. Sometimes I found it difficult to be honest with myself and introspective but it was what was needed and Ruth was supportive too.
      I said to Ruth at the end of our last session how empowered I now feel, which has in turn helped my energy levels and drive and therefore delivery. This new feeling is purely mental because I have not been given any more responsibilities at work I am just handling situations in a different, better, way.
      Head of Business Management (Property)
      Aberdeen Asset Management
    • Senior Buying Manager
      I’m aware that I’m in danger of sounding melodramatic, but my time with Ruth has been truly life changing. Her coaching style of taking the time to understand you, listening, advising and encouraging you to delve deeper into how and why you are really feeling as you are, has meant that I have learnt so much more about myself, what gives me energy, where my strengths/areas to develop are and therefore how I can get the best out of myself, other people around me and situations. From useful quick tips that I use almost every day to longer term goal planning, Ruth has helped me step on my behaviours significantly particularly in the areas of confidence and holding difficult conversations. I would whole-heartedly recommend Ruth.
      Senior Buying Manager
      Asda

    Please click here to view a few of our Executive Coaching Profiles:

    Dr Ruth Smith
    Deena Gornick
    Sue Jefferson
    Martin Longdon